Titelübersicht
- La débil mental
- Matate, amor
- Precoz
Precoz (novel)
In Precoz mother and son live isolated in a house with firewood piled up at the door, meals left unfinished, fenced in by train tracks. Everything turns on the erotic, set among the “new poor” of Europe. The characters in Precoz sleep in the woods or in front of supermarkets. We find mother and son, like two more undocumented immigrants rummaging through the rubbish, hunting, being chased by the police, as the son slowly becomes a man. Precoz is also a horror novel. But the horror is that of desire. Nothing could be more disquieting.
Argentine, Chile, Uruguay: Mardulce Editora, November 2015
La débil mental, novel
Ariana Harwicz brings us to the innermost core of family connections. La débil mental describes the complex relationship of a mother to her daughter and a neglected emotional upbringing. The daughter as a bait, an object of hate and at the same time of admiration, because: “What’s a son?” the mother asks herself on a snowy country road, holding the girl in her arms.
Far too early, the mother takes her daughter to the night clubs at the edge of the forest. And at the same time, she teaches her to pause and look at snails, to make an English plait, and to whistle with her fingers. The infinite sexual drive, the mother’s rivalry with her own daughter, the desolation of a childhood between farms, taverns, and brooks, the hardship of a life without a husband, a headlong rush – all this is described in this novel.
La débil mental is the biography of a body in which everything is deeply buried. This novel is like a well dug to the point of exhaustion, written in arid, stony words like crusts that remain intact, fixed from childhood.
Argentina: Mardulce Editora, 2014
Matate, amor (Kill yourself, darling), novel
Matate, amor is a countryside thriller. Everything happens in a house at the outskirts of a forest in which lives a deer family of three. They are watched by the isolated female first-person narrator who holds a weapon in her hand. So far, she hasn’t used it …
This daring, overwhelmingly honest novel describes her contact with the wild nature surrounding her, the neighbours that she spies out, but also how she is overpowered by desire, her dark fear, and the impulse to beg her husband: Kill yourself! This woman is far away from finding peace and quiet in seclusion. She is confronted with violence and often acts irrationally due to her depression caused by motherhood and marriage.
Spain: Lengua de Trapo; Argentina: Paradiso; Israel: Zikit Sfarim
